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St. Paul writes "the foolishness of God is wiser than men." The poems in William Wenthe's God's Foolishness mine the feelings of human uncertainty in matters of love and desire, time and death, and...

The 1968 burning of the Lazy B Stables in Charlotte, North Carolina, attracted little notice beyond coverage in local media. By the mid-1970s, however, the fire had become the center of a contentious...

Gumbo adorns menus from New Orleans to New York to New Delhi, appearing in variations such as chicken and sausage gumbo, gombo z?herbes, and seafood gumbo. Some cooks use roux, others okra, and...

In Hemingway?s Art of Revision, John Beall analyzes more than a dozen pieces of the author?s celebrated short fiction, with a focus on manuscripts and typescripts, as part of a broader examination of...

Hothead is a haibun-patterned, book-length declamation in which no topic is off limits?Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, America, global warming, eros, mental illness, the natural world, technology, the aging...

How to Drown a Boy, a debut collection of poems by J. Bruce Fuller, investigates how boyhood and fatherhood entwine to create cycles that mimic decaying and dangerous natural surroundings. The woods,...

With an entirely new approach to poetry and the art of collage, Jessy Randall transforms diagrams, schematics, charts, graphs, and other visual documents from very old books into poems that speak to...

Hybrid Creatures, Matthew Baker?s sharp and innovative collection, follows four very different protagonists as they search for, and struggle with, connection: an amateur hacker attempts to track down...

This posthumous volume of poetry from Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson explores the suspended state of existence that illness imposes upon its sufferers -- what she calls the "impossible bottle...

In Ghostlight, a long-awaited second collection of original poems by Ryan Wilson, considers the haunting of the contemporary mind. With virtuosic formal variety and masterful craft, these poems range...

Many of the recurring motifs found in south Louisiana's culture spring from the state's rich folklore. Influenced by settlers of European and African heritage, celebrated customs like the Courir de...

The poems of In the Months of My Son?s Recovery inhabit the voice and point of view of the mother of a heroin addict who enters recovery. With clear perception and precise emotional tones, Kate...

In his second poetry collection, Infinite Altars, James Brasfield tracks restless interplays of light on a fallen feather outside an Italian chapel, the surface of the Gowanus Canal, and a forest...

In Invention of the Wilderness, Bruce Bond explores the wilderness as a spiritual, psychological, and ecological realm?a territory that, depending on our tolerances and affections, calls out for...

Biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers knew the novelist James Salter (1925?2015) during the last decade of his life, visited him twice on Long Island, and received eighty letters from him. Meyers?s...

Stephen Cushman?s Keep the Feast sings in the tradition of the psalmists and devotional poets, offering an intimate, ecstatic doxology, both exultant and indicting, spiritual and secular. His poems...

?ardon me, but I? shivering a bit at my core. These are restless, storm-hued stanzas, revelations of our dark cravings and hapless, woefully imperfect attempts at perfect love. Here are the dreams...

Larvae of the Nearest Stars offers deeply serious verse that packs profound emotional and spiritual power while encouraging readers to laugh out loud. Catherine W. Carter?s quirky, accessible poems...

Last Pawn Shop In New Jersey : PoemsAuthor: James HochPublisher: LSU PressPublication Date: Feb 09, 2022Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 080717405XISBN-13:...

Adam Day?s Left-Handed Wolf offers short lyrical meditations and narratives that wrestle with contemporary issues of the environment, spirituality, and the social. These compact, imagistic poems...

Leviathan, the highly anticipated second collection by Michael Shewmaker, offers an innovative reimagining of the book of Job. Set in the landscape of modern East Texas, the poem unfolds in four...

Light At The Seam: PoemsAuthor: Joseph BathantiPublisher: LSU PressPublication Date: Mar 02, 2022Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0807176923ISBN-13: 9780807176924

Angela Voras­-Hills?s Louder Birds, her debut collection of poetry, is a beautiful study of the natural world, motherhood, and the inherent desire for meaning. This collection of complex lyric poems...

Meghan Kenny?s debut collection, Love Is No Small Thing, gives readers an assembly of keenly drawn characters each navigating the world looking for an understanding of love in its many forms and...

Lures : PoemsAuthor: Adam VinesPublisher: LSU PressPublication Date: Feb 09, 2022Number of Pages: 68 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0807176893ISBN-13: 9780807176894

Winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize by the Harvard Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy Manipulating the Masses tells the story of the enduring threat to American democracy that...

A prolific poet as a child, Barbara Drake-Vera loved writing almost as much as she adored her father, a moody postal employee with an elaborate comb-over and a fondness for Mahler. But when her...

Born to Cuban parents in Lima, Per?, raised in Miami among political exiles, and having spent two years in Francoist Spain, Orlando Ricardo Menes pays tribute to the resilience and tradition that...

Reflecting on the Salem witch trials, Puritan minister Cotton Mather cautioned his flock against the moral temptations of the unknown wild, located in what he termed an ?American desert.? Today, more...

?What is the shape of progress inside a subpar environment, when escape is not possible, and life must be measured as the relative extremity of multiple misfortunes? Is it the shape of a bird??...